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Your leadership is welcome here as collectively it is time to live with ALIVENESS

 

Wildkind Outdoors offers nature-based educational courses, rewilding retreats, leadership development and self-reliance training.

 

From essential outdoor skills like wilderness survival training to nature immersion retreats that restore profound holistic health and resilience, Founder Jess Caldwell curates transformational courses and adventures for youth, teens and adults of all ages.

 

The Way of the Wildkind is to energize a growing community of heart-centered humans who value ALIVENESS and holistic survival. Nature is our greatest ally as we cultivate a profound reverence for life, a sensitivity towards our symbiotic relationshp with all living things and compassionate leadership for a thriving future.

 

In 2025, Wildkind Outdoors will be launching a powerful membership platform, a year-long mentorship cohort for women as well as online courses for self-study.

 

Jess Caldwell is the founder of Wildkind Outdoors—A nature based skills educator, certified Wilderness First Responder and dedicated ALIVENESS practitioner. She believes that personal rewilding is a journey, a vital compass for navigating these uncertain times of global change. Through seasonal alignment, immersive nature training, and sensory awareness practices.

Subscribe below to join a growing community of nature lovers, life learners, outdoor explorers and health optimizers who value connection,  direct living skills, food sovereignty and self-reliance as the new self-care.

 

As sentient beings, the term rewilding has an appropriate application to our human experience. This is a holistic approach to rebalance, restore, and thrive in mind, body and spirit as we are all unique ecosystems that are positively affected by our conscious actions to reclaim all that is damaged through our modern lifestyle. This includes stress, poor diet, nature deficiency, technology burn-out, comfort pacification, toxic relationships, social isolation, boredom, fear and overwhelm.

 

"To Rewild your life is to unplug from the modern lifestyle of disconnect and convenient consumption and immerse mind, body and spirit into nature's intelligent design to renew the health and well-being of all things wild and free. This includes the health of our communities and our planet and leads to greater resiliency and self-sufficieny with a huge spike in joy." ~ Wildkind Jess

 
 

 

"To Rewild is to unplug from the modern lifestyle of disconnect and convenience and immerse mind, body and spirit into nature's intelligent design to renew the health and well-being of all things wild and free."  
Jess Caldwell 
 
The Rewilding journey begins with a curiosity to feel more alive and leads to an exploration of self and a deepening relationship to people and nature. Rewilding, was a term originally created to describe ecological restoration, to repair damaged ecosystems and increase more biodiverse natural habitats. As sentient beings, the term rewilding has an appropriate application to our human experience. This is a holistic approach to rebalance, restore, and thrive in mind, body and spirit as we are all unique ecosystems that are positively affected by our conscious actions to reclaim all that is damaged through our modern lifestyle. This includes stress, poor diet, nature deficiency, technology burn-out, comfort pacification, toxic relationships, social isolation, boredom, fear and overwhelm.
 

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Founder and Total Wildkind

Jess has always taken the “Road Less Traveled”. She has experienced the transformative power of getting hands-on and dirty with the elements and embraces the cultivation of joyful and adventurous living. With a multi-disciplinary approach to optimal health, Jess welcomes you on this unique path of self discovery.

As a nature lover, Wildernes Survival Instructor and ALIVENESS Coach, Jess founded Wildkindkind Outdoors with the desire to learn, share and grow in community with others who feel drawn to expand and challenge themselves into a more integrated partnership with the natural world.

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